Commission to Study Social Insurance and Unemployment: Hearings...on H.J. Res. 1591...April 6, 11, 19161918 - 317 pages |
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Page 151 - But there will be no meeting of the committee to-morrow. (Accordingly, at 12.30 orlock pm, a recess was taken until 2 o'clock pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS The committee resumed at 2 o'clock pm, at the expiration of the recess.
Page 312 - Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission), which shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 304 - Managers at such time and place, and in such manner as may be specified in its by-laws, who shall have the control and management of the affairs and funds of the society, a majority of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and whenever any vacancy shall happen among such...
Page 301 - Engineers, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...
Page 285 - ... the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers, Brass and Silver Workers...
Page 307 - No dividend or distribution of the property of such corporation, society or association shall be made until all debts are fully paid, and then only upon its final dissolution and surrender of organization and name; nor shall any distribution be made except by a vote of a majority of the members.
Page 219 - ... welfare of the working classes. And here the care of those workpeople who are incapable of earning their livelihood is of the first importance. In the interest of these the Emperor has caused a bill for the insurance of workpeople against the consequences of accident to be sent to the Bundesrath — a bill which, it is hoped, will meet a need felt both by workpeople and employers.
Page 307 - The orphans admitted into the College, shall be there fed with plain but wholesome food, clothed with plain but decent apparel, (no distinctive dress ever to be worn) and lodged in a plain but safe manner...
Page 262 - ... application he has been continuously unemployed ; (3) that he is capable of work but unable to obtain suitable employment...
Page 135 - Sore and sad as I am by the illness, the killing, the maiming of so many of my fellow workers, I would rather see that go on for years and years, minimized and mitigated by the organized labor movement, than give up one jot of the freedom of the workers to strive and struggle for their own emancipation through their own efforts.39 In the areas of collective bargaining and union organization, the AFL also became less activist.